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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS WV. KLIPFEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES E. SIMMONS, OF SAME PLACE.

COlLED-WIRE FLOOR-MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,244, dated July 15, 1890.

Application iiled July 8, 1887. Serial No. 243,752. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W.,KLIPFEL,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi-v agonal wires for supporting the main fabricl in proper position; also the manner of securing the ends of the coils.

The drawing shows a section of a Hoor-mat and border and also a portion of a diagonal supporting-wire.

In constructing this mat I iirst interlock one set of spirals of the proper length and number to make a mat of the size desired.v

'Ilhen I interlock crosswise into thisfabric another set of spirals with each other and into the first fabric, as shown in drawing A, after which I run in double and treble coils B B upon each margin, more or less, but sufiicient to secure the desired strength, and at the in-l tersection of the cross-coils and border I coil the ends of said cross-coils around them, as seen at b. I also lock the ends of the coils around each other at the corners, as seen at a a, thus securing and firmly connecting the two-sets of coils upon the borders and corner margins of the mat, and thus disposing of the ends of the wires in an effectual manner.

The tie-wires C are applied, as shown, diagonally across the body of the mat, one or more, as found desirable, to support and keep the mat from getting out of square.

The coiled-wire border as applied to my mat is less expensive than theV iron frame usually used for a border. It is also lighter and more flexible, andthus more nearly resembles a jute or grass mat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is Y l. In a coiled-wire floor-mat composed of a series of parallel coils having interlocked therewith a similar series crossing the first, abracing-wire extended through the mat diaggonally to both of said series of coils, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A coiled-wire floor-mat composed ot two sets of coils run across or diagonally into each other with a ymargin of duplicated wire coils, around which are coiled the ends of the respective cross-coils of the body of the mat, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a coiled-wire floor-mat composed of parallel coils having interlocked therewith transverse or diagonal coils, a border also coniposed of coiled wire extending along its niargins and so interlaced as to form a selvage for said mat, substantially as described and shown.

4. In a coiled-wire floor-mat composed ot' a series of parallel coils having interlockcd therewith a similar series crossing the first, a bracingwire extended through the mat diagonally to both of said series of coils, and a coiled-wire border, substantially as and for the purpose described.

THOMAS W. KLIPFEL. Witnesses:

JOSEPH RIDGE, f FREDERICK C. GOODWIN. 

